The HTC One M9 is one tough device to repair

iFixit has just done a teardown of HTC’s latest flagship, the HTC One M9 and if anything they’ve discovered that the device is going to be pretty tough to fix. If the teardown is any indicator, initially it wasn’t hard to take the device apart in the sense it was mostly held together with torx screws and didn’t require heating to open up unlike it’s predecessor. But burrowing deeper into the device, it became pretty clear that it would be no cakewalk to fix if you happened to crack your screen.

Unfortunately, it still scored a very low repairability score, no thanks to too much adhesives keeping the phone’s vital components together and thus making them more dangerous to remove without damaging them plus the inability to change the screen without tearing the entire phone apart first.

You can check out the full teardown after the break.

HTC One M9 Teardown